If you need to get VMware certified, you should hope to God that the company that you work for pays for it. I heard that it was some ridiculous sum of cash to go all the way through those cert programs.

“grasps for relevance” is a pretty stinging endorsement/indictment… but that’s the truth in a container, KVM, Zen world world, the “VM” nut has been cracked. Now its management of those objects that’s value add and there they are with the “proprietary” fungible tech that needs to play nice with the open tech. VMware is shifting from solution to problem in that context of interoperability.ServeTheHome – 26 Aug 19

Lol I love ServeTheHome – They’re what really ripped into that SuperMicro “”“breach”"". They also have the most savage titles apparently

Also, I agree with the headline and your assessment. They seem to be the Microsoft of the Hypervisor world and charging for every bell and whistle that they can think to invent and claim innovation to. When I was looking at doing a lab for the podcast, the cost of the hardware I needed was nothing compared to what VMware charged. I was shocked. AWS bills are cheaper lol.